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BRITISH SCHOOL, 20th Century

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Manylion

Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru

Rhif yr Eitem

NMW A 10228

Creu/Cynhyrchu

BRITISH SCHOOL, 20th Century

Rôl: Artist

Derbyniad

Bequest, 1996

Mesuriadau

Uchder (cm): 14.1

Lled (cm): 10

h(cm) secondary support:28.7

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w(cm) secondary support:18

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Techneg

Photograph

Fine Art - works on paper

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Photograph

Lleoliad

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Amgueddfa Cymru

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WILLIAMS, Bedwyr

Amgueddfa Cymru

Photographer: BLACK, Matt

(2014)

© Matt Black / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru

Amgueddfa Cymru

Photographer: KEETMAN, Peter

(1961)

© Peter Keetman/Amgueddfa Cymru

Amgueddfa Cymru

SUTHERLAND, Graham Vivian

© Ystâd Graham Sutherland/Amgueddfa Cymru

Amgueddfa Cymru

Photographer: HURN David

(2006)

© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru

Amgueddfa Cymru

Photographer: HURN David

(1980)

© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru

Amgueddfa Cymru

Photographer: HURN David

(2016)

© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru

Amgueddfa Cymru

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Photographer: BENTON HARRIS John

(1976)

Amgueddfa Cymru

Photographer: KEETMAN, Peter

(1969)

© Peter Keetman/Amgueddfa Cymru

Amgueddfa Cymru

Photographer: HURA Sohrab

(2016)

© Sohrab Hura / Magnum Photos / Amguedfa Cymru

Amgueddfa Cymru

Rydyn ni’n gweithio ar ryddhau’r ddelwedd hon.

<p>5 screen film installation</p>

CALE, John

(2009)

Amgueddfa Cymru

<p>Full title: Jean Straker, Photographer. Jean Straker was born in London in 1913. During the Second World War, Straker, a conscientious objector, worked as a photographer. Jean soon discovered how great the need was for detailed, speedy medical photography, particularly of surgical procedures. There were numerous emergency operations performed during the air raid years and operating techniques were changing and developing rapidly. Photographs, particularly those in sequence, were of the utmost value, as records and in the teaching hospitals as teaching aids. Abandoning commercial photography in 1951 Jean set up The "Academy of Visual Arts". Members had access to exhibitions resulting from its program of lecture-demonstrations. In 1951, he opened the Visual Arts Club at Studio House, 12 Soho Square, for "artists and photographers, amateur and professional, studying the female nude". Six years in 1961, officers from Scotland Yard, acting on a tip of from the Italian Police, visited Straker. In 1961, police raided Studio House and took a number of prints and negatives that they considered obscene. Straker stood trial in 1962, he defended himself and despite arguing that his photographs were "of artistic value", he lost the case and forfeited all the prints and negatives that were confiscated. But on appeal to The House of Lords this conviction was squashed. This case lead to changes in the Censorship Laws in 1965.</p>

Photographer: HURN David

(1965)

© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru

Amgueddfa Cymru

<p>Full title: Jean Straker, Photographer. Jean Straker was born in London in 1913. During the Second World War, Straker, a conscientious objector, worked as a photographer. Jean soon discovered how great the need was for detailed, speedy medical photography, particularly of surgical procedures. There were numerous emergency operations performed during the air raid years and operating techniques were changing and developing rapidly. Photographs, particularly those in sequence, were of the utmost value, as records and in the teaching hospitals as teaching aids. Abandoning commercial photography in 1951 Jean set up The "Academy of Visual Arts". Members had access to exhibitions resulting from its program of lecture-demonstrations. In 1951, he opened the Visual Arts Club at Studio House, 12 Soho Square, for "artists and photographers, amateur and professional, studying the female nude". Six years in 1961, officers from Scotland Yard, acting on a tip of from the Italian Police, visited Straker. In 1961, police raided Studio House and took a number of prints and negatives that they considered obscene. Straker stood trial in 1962, he defended himself and despite arguing that his photographs were "of artistic value", he lost the case and forfeited all the prints and negatives that were confiscated. But on appeal to The House of Lords this conviction was squashed. This case lead to changes in the Censorship Laws in 1965.</p>

Photographer: HURN David

(2016)

© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru

Amgueddfa Cymru

PHILLIPS, Tom

© Tom Phillips. Cedwir Pob Hawl. DACS 2025/Amgueddfa Cymru

Amgueddfa Cymru

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<p>An abstract painting of form and colour, resembling the shapes of angels and people. Colour layering is the most important element in Morris' work. One colour is laid upon another in thin washes, sometimes in three layers, but each colour resonates through to the surface.</p> <p>The following is a quote from Mali Morris (Dec 2009):</p> <p>I painted Angel and People thirty years ago. Along with most of my paintings from that time, it was made flat on the floor, on unprimed canvas stretched across a solid board, and only later put onto a stretcher.</p> <p>There were many reasons for this way of painting. I wanted very fluid paint to stain large shapes directly into the fabric, and as thinning down oil paint dilutes colour saturation, I had by now changed to acrylic paint. Working flat meant that the flow of paint could be controlled more easily. </p> <p>I'm not exactly sure how the shapes came about. One or two because of something seen in the world, and others because I must have decided I needed a certain red, for example - which in turn would mean deciding how much of it there should be, how transparent or opaque, what kind of edges, where it should sit, how it might touch or cover other colours. I was fascinated - and still am - by how colour constructs light, which opens up the space in a painting. It's as if another world is being formed, and the way in which it happens, as the painting evolves, becomes almost a subject in itself. </p> <p>Working on the floor is physically different from working on a vertical canvas. The muscles of the whole body seem to do the drawing, and this animates the painting in unpredictable ways. There were always surprises when the painting was lifted upright, - good and bad ones. I spent more time looking at what I'd got so far and planning the next moves, than actually painting. I remember that time looking seemed slow, and time painting went quickly, and I hope that both those rhythms are somehow still visible.</p> <p>Painting on a board rather than a stretcher meant that the canvas could take more pressure, and I could, if necessary, walk right into the painting. The golden ground-colour was stained into the canvas first, and then left to dry. Everything else was painted on top of that, in two or three further stages. I started in the middle, moving out towards the edges, feeling my way visually across the expanding composition. The edges were the final thing I decided on, wanting two of them to be clear, with the other two, top and left, slicing into the thin black and yellow, just a little. The space in the painting seemed to need those two anchors.</p> <p>The three main forms are countered by the seven smaller ones, which act in varying ways as links, bridges, veils or appendages. The eye is moved about, across the shapes, and in and out of the painting's space, from colour to colour, and through colour. These rhythms swing and shift, and the relationships between the colours create a particular light. That is what fascinates me in painting - how such a flat, still thing can be luminous, how it can keep the eye moving and noticing all the tiny details, but all the time returning to the whole image.</p> <p>I title the paintings after they are finished, and try to find words to echo the ideas and sensations of the painting. The titles don't describe anything in a literal way, but are like clues. The idea for this one came from a friend who saw the painting in the studio. He described the left-hand form as having 'wings like an angel', I liked the different sounds made by the words 'angel' and 'people', almost a rhyme, and the pairing of the words proposed the idea of a conversation, or an appearance. </p> <p>Looking back, I can remember my painter-heroes of that time - Matisse, always returned to, lessons learned from him lasting a life-time, and Miro, whose work is serious and carefree in equal measure. The American painters I had been excited by as a student were Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, and Kenneth Noland. Closer to home, in the UK, I admired Roger Hilton, Gillian Ayres, Prunella Clough, Ian Stephenson, - and painters who had become friends, Jennifer Durrant, John McLean, and Geoff Rigden. I was to discover the work of Thomas Nozkowski, Mary Heilmann, Bernard Frize, many others, - but that would be later.</p> <p>There have been many changes in how I work, since 1979, but seeing this painting again makes me realize what has been constant. It's difficult to put into words, because it is to do with what is peculiar to painting - how it seems a never-ending involvement, to make something appear and then to find out as you go along what it means to you, what has become familiar, what to discard, what to keep searching for. It's an on-going fascination with painting as visual language and expression, its evolution, its possibilities, its difficulties and its pleasures.</p> <p>Mali Morris December 2009</p> <p>Angel and People 1979 180 x 171 cms acrylic on canvas </p> <p>The painting was made flat, so that I could work with fluid acrylics, staining intense colour directly into the canvas. Unlike oil paint, acrylic keeps its colour saturation when diluted. I worked from the centre out, feeling my way visually towards the edges. </p> <p>I give titles to paintings when they are finished. This one was suggested by a friend's comment: 'That shape has wings like an angel'. The almost-rhyming words 'angel' and 'people' implied a conversation, or an appearance, - both are ideas I link with painting.</p> <p>I am fascinated by how pictorial space seems always on the move, and how the light in paintings is so particular, constructed by colour. And yet paintings are material things, flat, and still. How to negotiate these contradictions, how to use this visual language, and discover what it can do and say, is, I think, what challenges me, and keeps me searching.</p> <p>Mali Morris December 2009</p>

MORRIS, Mali

(1978)

Amgueddfa Cymru

Photographer: HURN David

© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru

Amgueddfa Cymru

Photographer: PINCKERS Max

(2015)

© Max Pinckers / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru

Amgueddfa Cymru

SUTHERLAND, Graham Vivian

(1978-1979)

© Ystâd Graham Sutherland/Amgueddfa Cymru

Amgueddfa Cymru

<p>Mae'r gweithiau hyn yn rhan o gyfres o ddeg ysgythriad a gynhyrchodd Ofili i ymateb i leoliad. Gogledd Cymru oedd y lleoliad diweddaraf ar ôl Barcelona, Berlin ac Efrog Newydd. Yr ysgythriadau yw ffordd yr artist o ddod i 'nabod Gogledd Cymru. Mae'r ddelweddiaeth yn cyfeirio'n anuniongyrchol at y lleoliad dan sylw. Trwy ddefnyddio celf i ddeall yr ardal o'i gwmpas, mae Ofili yn ein hannog i gwestiynu beth yw hanfod genre tirluniau.</p> <p>Label gan Chloe Jones o'r grŵp Codi'r Llen ar Gaffael.</p>

OFILI, Chris

(1996)

© Chris Ofili/Amgueddfa Cymru

Amgueddfa Cymru

<p>Full title: Dancing Grannies. ''Who says you can’t feel good and be sexy as a senior citizen''. The Dancing Grannies are a 5 member team in their early 60s to mid 70s. Although they kick and jump better than most 19 year old they are all grandmothers.</p>

Photographer: HURN David

(1997)

© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru